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I could almost hear the faint splash as it sank in the golden waves, and hear, too, the sonorous words of the old wedding ceremony: "Desponsamus te, Mare, in signum veri perpetuique dominii!"
'True it is, says their chronicles, 'that the Adriatic Sea is in the duchy of Venice, and they called it the 'Gulf of Venice'. Now it was that there was first instituted the magnificent symbolical ceremony of wedding the sea, with the proud words 'Desponsamus te mare in signum veri perpetuique domini'!
Then the Doge, amid the thunders of the artillery of the fort, took the ring blessed by the Patriarch, who now emptied a cup of holy water into the sea, and, advancing into a little gallery behind his throne, threw the ring into the waves, pronouncing the words, Desponsamus te, mare, in signum veri perpetuique dominii.
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